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Another encouraging sign was the fact that Harvard played the Olympians close until the beginning of the third period. In the final stanza, however, the Crimson's lack of practice showed, as Team USA bombarded its weary opponents for eight goals...
...mark of the second stanza, the ball entered the Harvard goal area, followed by a furious flurry of action in front of the Crimson...
Through the first three periods, the Bruins played like their "A"-team mates who were somewhere in California. As the combatants entered the final seven-minute stanza, Brown was ahead...
Despite the Crimson's inability to put anything in the goal, the game was far from decided entering the second half. Well into the stanza, the Bruins' own offensive machine had failed to put anything past Katsias...
...source material is the longest epic of world literature, a 100,000- stanza poem about seven times the combined length of The Iliad and The Odyssey. Like those works, the Mahabharata is a glorious welter of incident and digression, evoking not just a central story of ruinous war but an array of myths and human archetypes and an animal world aquiver with magic. It would be hard to overstate its role as a wellspring of Indian culture. Brook, however, was drawn to its transcending themes: man's joyous awakening to nature and love and duty, the menacing lures of vanity...